HI all
You might remember me moaning about adduser and some other things
breaking when I upgrade from the bo perl 5.003summin to the newest hamm
perl.
I did not get much helpful respone, because I assume the problem is
rather obscure. So I did a bit of investigating, and I seem to have
narrowed down the problem to the libraries perl is trying to use. If I
type ldd perl5.00404 I get this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ ldd /usr/bin/perl5.00404
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4000f000)
libgdbm.so.1 => /opt/kde/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000)
libdb.so.2 => /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4001b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40029000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4002c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40045000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40116000)
Now the libc5 bit must obviously be wrong... So I thaught, perhaps it
had something to do with libcrypt.so.1 using libc5, but if I type ldd
libctrypt.so.1 I get this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ ldd /lib/libcrypt.so.1
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40030000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
which to me looks quite peachy
But then, spurred on by writing this E-Mail, I suddenly find the
solution.... Looking at the ldd perl bit I see
libgdbm.so.1 => /opt/kde/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000)
/opt/kde/lib!!!!?? How dit THAT happen? Anyway, check /etc/ld.so.conf,
nothing there. Do set | grep LD, and VOILA <sp?>, it was set in my
LDCONFIG.
Now of course I had no idea that the env var was looked at before
ld.so.conf, or why on EARTH the kde package includes a libgdbm.so.1!!
Well, at least I learnt something today :) (actually stricty speaking
yesterday as it was just midnight)
As you might guess, this is the deb package done by KDE, not the debian
one, which I installed because I was still using bo at the time. And
since most people do I assume run the Debian KDE package (if they run
KDE), they never ran accross this problem.
I solved the problem by removing /opt/kde/lib from LDCONFIG, and
putting it at the end of /etc/ld.so.conf.
On another note, while this might not be a terribly common problem,
perhaps the maintainer of the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO would like to
add the possibility of, and solution to this problem to it?
Cheers
Neilen (Happier Debian user than ever :)
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E-Mail: Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16-Jan-98
Time: 23:34:29
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